CVE-2026-6384

high

Published 2026-04-15 · Modified 2026-04-28

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

A flaw was found in gimp. This buffer overflow vulnerability in the GIF image loading component's `ReadJeffsImage` function allows an attacker to write beyond an allocated buffer by processing a specially crafted GIF file. This can lead to a denial of service or potentially arbitrary code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`3.2.2-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.2.2-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`
rhel	6.0	affected
rhel	7.0	affected
rhel	8.0	affected
rhel	9.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gimp	gimp	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-120

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.